Central SA
Deputy minister hands out donations at needy FS school─── 12:59 Fri, 04 Feb 2022
The Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs, Maggy Sotyu, on Friday handed out donations to needy school kids at the Summerville Primary Farm School outside Bultfontein in the Free State.
Sotyu and other ministers are visiting schools across the country, in terms of a request by president Cyril Ramaphosa, to address challenges identified. She and the mayors of the Lejweleputswa District and Tswelopelo Municipality, including the speaker of the council, handed out at least 100 shoes, school T-shirts, and bags to the farm school's pupils. Whilst giving out these donations, the minister who hails from the Free State, also went to a farm school and urged these kids to work hard to realise success through education.
Sotyu also thanked the school principal who seemingly shared detailed challenges besieging the school since he came on board as a principal in 2014. She says the school principal had many opportunities to vacate office and seek greener pastures elsewhere - at more modern and advanced schools across the province - but due to his love and passion for the profession, he stuck true to his beliefs.
OFM News previously reported that amongst other things to be handed out at the school, are at least 100 eco-furniture desks, school shoes, bags, stationery, sanitary towels, colour-coded dustbins, and garden tools.
OFM News/Lucky Nkuyane & Kekeletso Mosebetsi